conference papers + invited talks

Building Brand + Community on a Budget.” Oculus Connect 5, San Jose, 26 September 2018.

“Virtual Reality for News Media.” Hellkonferansen 2018, Hell, Norway, 3 February 2018.

“More Human than Non/Human: Posthumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Video Games as Affective Experience” with Sandy Appleöff-Lyons. Philosophy of Computer Games 2016, Valletta, Malta, 2 November 2016.

“‘Riffing On the Archive’: NASA + Remix Culture as Alternative Futurism.” ICFA 37, Orlando, 18 March 2016.

“Read the [Fine] Print: Irvine Welsh’s Typography as Textual Violence/Decolonial Resistance.” PAMLA 2015, Portland, 8 November 2015.

“Monáe Meets Moten: Radical Black Sociality in a Science Fictional Framework.” Revising the Past, Remaking the Future, Riverside, 16 October 2015.

“Cheat Code Criticism: Unlocking Easter Eggs in Ludonarratological Debates.” PAMLA 2014, Riverside, 24 October 2014.

“‘How’s that for a Slice of Fried Gold?’: Posthumanism and the Queer Landscape in Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead.” Irreverent Readings: (dis)junctions 2014, University of California, Riverside, 11 April 2014.

“‘Natural’s Not In It’: Bio/Technology, Science/Fiction, and Popular Culture.” Nature+: Re/Inventions 2014, California State University, Long Beach, 10 April 2014.

“Social Engagement and Measuring ROI” with Tracy Hermans. Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University, 10 March 2014.

“Object-Oriented Obsession: Print, Digital Media, and the Fetishization of Radical American Fiction.” PAMLA 2013, San Diego, 1 November 2013.

“Applying to PhD Programs in English Literature” with Dr. Araceli Esparza and KT Shaver. California State University, Long Beach, 24 October 2013.

“Close Shaves: Agamben’s Whatever Being and Moustachioed Memes.” Contemporary Gendered Performance and Practice Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 13 April 2013.

“e-(co)criticism: Pop Music, Remix Culture, and Ambient Poetics in the Postmodern Age.” Conference on Ecopoetics, University of California, Berkeley, 24 February 2013.

“The Manufactured Mensch: Jewish Identity in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.” Significations Graduate Conference, California State University, Los Angeles, 12 May 2012.

“Engaging Textual Enclosures: The Politics of the Peritext and Its Functional Shifts Across Media.” Narratives Mediated: (dis)junctions 2012, University of California, Riverside, 13 April 2012.

“Participation > Product: Art, Politics, and Participatory Culture in McLuhan’s Electric Age.” Occupation: Re/Inventions 2012, California State University, Long Beach, 5 April 2012.